2. Course Objective
Course Objective
This course is intended for second year B.Tech
students, who wish to improve skills through
hands-on experience in System Administration.
This course will be followed by another course on
Network Administration.
Students who successfully complete these
courses, will be offered part-time work for System
and Network Admin in the institute and will be
expected to work for at least two semesters. They
will also be given credits for the work.
3. Course Objective
Course Objective
The course will cover:
Computer Hardware & Software, Operating
System Administration, High Performance
Computing, Virtualization, Cloud Computing,
Storage, Backup, Data Centre etc.
Develop a conceptual understanding of System
Internals, System Administration and Computing
Environment.
Enable the students to diagnose and troubleshoot
Computer Hardware and Software problems and
manage various Application Servers.
4. Course Outline
Course Outline
Credits: 2 Credits
Contact Hours: 1.5 hours per week (Total expected
work: Appx 5 hrs per week)
Mode of Teaching: Classroom Discussions,
Practical Assignments, Industry Visits, Seminars
by Industry Speakers and one Project. For most
topics, students will be expected to go through
prerecorded lecture slides which will be further
discussed in the class. The Assignments will be
take home to be completed and submitted in the
next lecture class.
The lecture slides, assignments and references are
available on the course website:
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~navi/iiitdsacourse
5. Topics
Course Content
1. System Hardware- PC and Server Hardware
Architecture
– Hardware Architecture
– CPU; Memory; Disk Storage
– Input/Output units (Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor; CD/DVD Drives,
Speaker/Microphone etc)
– Motherboard; Power Supply; Network Interface
– Rack vs Blade Servers
– Cooling Requirements
– Performance
2. OS Administration
– Features of a widely used operating environment such as MS
WINDOWS, UNIX or LINUX
– Comparison of operating environments; Various File Systems
– Linux system administration
– File System and Disk Management
– OS Performance and Tuning
– Monitoring systems
– Administration of specialized servers (Apache, MySQL etc.)
– Troubleshooting
6. Topics
Course Content
3. Centralized Authentication
– Active Directories
– LDAP
– Radius
4. Storage
– DAS (Direct Attached Storage)
– NAS (Network Attached Storage)
– SAN (Storage Area Network)
– NFS and SAMBA
– Backup and Recovery
7. Topics
Course Content
5. Data Centre Management
– Tier I, II, III Data Centers
– Administering PAC (Precision Air Conditioning)
– BMS (Building Management System)
– Surveillance
– Access Control
6. Special Topics
– Application Server Management
– High Performance Computing
– Virtualization
– Cloud Computing
– Big Data Storage
8. Quizzes
Course Content
There will be ten quizzes.
The quizzes will be at the start of every class
and will cover the recorded lecture content
which the student is expected to go through on
their own.
9. Assignment
Course Content
There will be ten take home assignments
All the assignments have been designed to give
you hands on experience on the topics being
covered in the lectures.
You are expected to use your personal laptop to
do the assignments
References which will be helpful in the
assignments will be provided in the course
website.
10. Project
Course Content
There will be one project, to be done individually
or in groups of two.
Each project would require 10 - 15 man days of
work and will give the students an educative
hands-on experience in implementing real life
systems.
All the projects will be mentored by the course
instructor.
Some suggested topics have been given in the
course website. However any other topic related
to systems can be chosen.
12. References
Course References
The course slides, assignments and references
will be available at
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~navi/iiitdsacourse
Online on the Web:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
13. Assignment
Assignment
Please have a look at the following videos before
the next class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wszDDuz_Dow
(What is a server )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzwQNeSgQRA
(Server Hardware Configuration - The Basic Components of Servers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg-mvrG-K-E
(How the Intel Processor is Made )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c06WxAvD4Nk
(CPU How it works)
14. Food For Thought
Those Who Succeed Act, Think
& Do Things Differently
Some People Feel The Rain,
Others Just get Wet- Bob Marley